Quotes about Hope
The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.
— Karl Barth
There is not other relation to God save that which appears upon the road along which Job travelled.
— Karl Barth
Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.
— Karl Barth
God is a dark night to man in this life.
— John of the Cross
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, "The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.
— Joseph Addison
Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.
— Joseph Addison
As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
— Livy
My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
— Samuel Johnson
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
— William Barclay